More than 100 business professionals from Watertown and the surrounding areas gathered at the Maranatha Baptist Bible College Dining Complex March 1 for breakfast and a meeting featuring keynote speaker Richard Chandler, Wisconsin’s Department of Revenue Secretary. Maranatha proved to be the ideal setting for the 2013 Economic Breakfast. Students went about their breakfast routines [Continue Reading...]
Download the PDF version here On August 1, 2012—Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day—the restaurant chain recorded the largest single-day sales total in its 66-year history. Allison (Snavely, ’02) Urso, however, says every day is Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day in her house. “We’ve really developed a passion for the company and what it stands for,” said Urso, who helps [Continue Reading...]
Marvin Klaudt, at first glance, is a typical transfer student going through transfer student battles—juggling his classes, enduring Wisconsin weather, and playing midfield for the Maranatha men’s soccer team. Klaudt recorded his second hat trick of the season Monday during a 10-2 win over Great Lakes Christian. He scored two game-winning goals in the same [Continue Reading...]
Ryan Nowatka says he has the perfect job for a Maranatha student. “Being a funeral director is not unlike being a pastor in the way you minister to families,” said Nowatka, Funeral Director at Watertown’s Pederson Funeral Homes. “A person with a strong faith can really be helpful. That’s why we like to hire Maranatha [Continue Reading...]
It only took one game for Tom Allen to figure out what was different about big-time college football. In fact, it didn’t even take that long. He saw the difference hours before the first kickoff. “We got off the buses for our spring game and there were a ton of people there, cheering us for [Continue Reading...]
Lee Krueger’s legacy of a strong faith will now be a blessing to those who spend every day encouraging young people to make that kind of faith their own. “One of Lee’s doctors said, ‘I’ve never met a young man with such strong faith who depended on the Lord like he did,’ ” said Loren [Continue Reading...]
Ten Maranatha students earned Microsoft Office Specialist certification by completing testing at the end of the second semester. Maranatha is a certified testing center for Certiport, which administers Microsoft testing. Any student is eligible for the testing, although most have completed a Microsoft computer course at Maranatha during the previous semester. The tests require students [Continue Reading...]
If Tracy Foster can provide financial analysis and advice for a $550 billion U.S. defense budget, perhaps he can be trusted to teach Principles of Accounting 1. The 52-year-old Lieutenant Colonel and Joint Chiefs of Staff Financial Analyst will retire from the Army this summer and join Maranatha’s Business Department faculty for the 2012-13 academic [Continue Reading...]
During his senior year of college, Robert Shaffer solidified what his friends thought to be a curious career choice: to own and operate his own Chick-fil-A franchise. “They had this perception that Chick-fil-A was a run-down restaurant with poor quality and poor service,” Shaffer said. “Even my wife (girlfriend at the time) Mandy and her [Continue Reading...]
See Graduation photo galleries here Graduating from college is a terrific accomplishment, whether you complete your studies in three years or almost 30. Maranatha’s 2012 Commencement ceremony included a wide spectrum of students among its 157 College and 19 Seminary graduates. The Class of 2012 was the third-largest in College history. Friday’s conferral of degrees [Continue Reading...]